Re: HMC and SNTP

And for those HMC users in Indiana, I got the following note from IBM.....


1) Hardware management console : Corrective service (2006.03.30)
Time Zone notice for HMC users in Indiana

Time Zone notice for HMC users in Indiana 
 
The recent relocation of the time zone boundary in Indiana removes the 
following counties from the Eastern Time Zone and places them in the 
Central 
Time Zone: Starke, Pulaski, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Pike, Dubois and Perry 

The effective date of this rule change is 2:00 AM EST, Sunday, April 2, 
2006. 
This date is the changeover date from Standard Time to Daylight Saving 
Time. 
If you are in one of the listed counties, and wish to observe Central Time 

Zone after the Daylight Saving Time change, please modify the time zone on 

your HMC to use a Central Time Zone, for example America/Chicago. 

In addition, you must install the fix package(s) listed for your version 
of 
the HMC: 
 
HMC 5.2 APAR MB01365/PTF MH00586 
HMC 5.1 APAR MB01275/PTF MH00493 
HMC 4.5 APAR MB001276/PTF MH00494 
HMC 3.3 APAR IY79212/PTF U806370

Visit HMC support for all your latest fixes
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/hmc


_____________________________
Bryan Dietz 
Aktion Associates 



midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/30/2006 01:34:20 PM:

-> >From IBM:
-> 
-> Right click on the blue background of the HMC.  Select Terminals, 
rshterm.
-> 
-> Rob,  Here is some info on the SNTP setup for the HMC. Use the MAN 
pages 
-> for any explanation of the commands. Also you will want to check the 
-> firewall on ETH1 and make sure that NTP is allowed. 
-> 
-> To enable Network Time Protocol service (start the daemon on each boot) 

->        chhmc -c xntp -s enable 
-> 
-> To add a Network Time Protocol server to the configuration file: 
->        chhmc -c xntp -s add mytimeserver.company.com 
-> 
->        Specify the hostname will not change firewall rule settings. It 
is 
-> assumed  that 
->        the user will use the Customize Network Settings to change 
firewall 
-> settings. 
-> -or- 
-> To add a Network Time Protocol server to the configuration file, using 
IP 
-> address 
->        and at the same time enable firewall access through network 
-> interface eth0: 
-> 
->        chhmc -c xntp -s add -a 10.10.10.32 -i eth0 
-> <Rob's notes>.  I didn't use the -i eth0.  I stopped after the IP 
address 
-> we use.</Rob's notes>
-> 
->         Note:  Normally it is eth1 that is on the open network.  Also, 
if 
-> you do not specify the eth0, use the customize network settings, lan 
-> adapters, Details, firewall tab to enable NTP. 
-> 
-> reboot the hmc after running each command to make sure daemon starts 
with 
-> the updated configuration file. 
-> 
-> 
-> 3) Verification 
-> hscroot does have read access to the configuration files.  If you are 
-> interested , you can use ls, cat, tail commands to view directories and 

-> files such as /etc/ntp.conf and /var/log/ntp or var/log/messages.  For 
-> larger files, "cat" isn't practical but you can use scp or the sendfile 

-> command to copy the file off or pipe the output of cat run in an 
external 
-> ssh session so another editor can be used. 
-> 
-> for example you can use
-> cat /etc/ntp.conf
-> to verify the NTP server name/ip address. 
-> 
-> You can use 
-> cat /var/log/ntp
-> and 
-> cat/var/log/messages
-> to verify that the daemon started, the NTP server was contacted, etc. 
For 
-> large files you may have to use tail instead of cat.
-> 
-> Rob Berendt